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They're going to give up. It's opportunistic, they're not going to risk robbery, or they'll think it's not working.

jcims 7y ago
You would give up, as would most rational people. Once you’re committing felonies the primacy of rational thought could be called into question.
- dpark 7y ago
  No. The typical person who is willing to steal a car is not willing to commit violent assault in order to take keys from you. Someone whose logic is so flawed that they think “oh well, felony” is probably not just stealing cars. At that point they might as well break into your house, murder you for your stuff, and then do the same for every house on the block. “Because felony”, right?
  - jcims 7y ago
    So ‘No.’ but then you go on to restate my point?
    - dpark 7y ago
      No. Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. I’m saying that’s absurd. Car thieves don’t generally commit war crimes.
      - jcims 7y ago
        This is what i said: >Once you’re committing felonies the primacy of rational thought could be called into question. This is what you're saying i said: >Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. See the difference?
        dpark 7y ago
        No, I don’t see the difference. You said that someone committing one felony will escalate to another felony because they can’t think rationally. The question was whether someone who’s willing to break into a parked car to steal it is willing to break into a house to assault the car owner in order to take their keys to steal the same car. You said yes, or at least you implied “yes” extremely strongly. If you don’t believe the answer is “yes” then I don’t know what the point of your comment was. PS: The fact that you thought my absurd extrapolation of your statement was making the same point tells me that you do indeed believe a car thief is likely to escalate to far worse crimes “because felony”.

You would give up, as would most rational people. Once you’re committing felonies the primacy of rational thought could be called into question.

dpark 7y ago
No. The typical person who is willing to steal a car is not willing to commit violent assault in order to take keys from you. Someone whose logic is so flawed that they think “oh well, felony” is probably not just stealing cars. At that point they might as well break into your house, murder you for your stuff, and then do the same for every house on the block. “Because felony”, right?
- jcims 7y ago
  So ‘No.’ but then you go on to restate my point?
  - dpark 7y ago
    No. Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. I’m saying that’s absurd. Car thieves don’t generally commit war crimes.
    - jcims 7y ago
      This is what i said: >Once you’re committing felonies the primacy of rational thought could be called into question. This is what you're saying i said: >Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. See the difference?
      - dpark 7y ago
        No, I don’t see the difference. You said that someone committing one felony will escalate to another felony because they can’t think rationally. The question was whether someone who’s willing to break into a parked car to steal it is willing to break into a house to assault the car owner in order to take their keys to steal the same car. You said yes, or at least you implied “yes” extremely strongly. If you don’t believe the answer is “yes” then I don’t know what the point of your comment was. PS: The fact that you thought my absurd extrapolation of your statement was making the same point tells me that you do indeed believe a car thief is likely to escalate to far worse crimes “because felony”.